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Malawi Training Advances Regional Effort to Strengthen African Research Visibility

UbuntuNet Alliance, in collaboration with the Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), delivered a three-day Repository Stewardship Programme workshop in Salima, Malawi, from 7–9 September 2026. The training equipped librarians with practical skills to manage institutional repositories, strengthening Malawi’s contribution to a wider regional effort to make African research more accessible and discoverable. The workshop …

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Rwanda Higher Education Institutions Join the Drive to Make Africa’s Research Output Discoverable and Accessible

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By Madara Ogot / September 27, 2026 September 27, 2026

Librarians from Higher Education Institutions across Rwanda converged on the capital city, Kigali, to attend the 3-day Research Repository Stewardship Workshop from September 14-16, 2026. The workshop, facilitated by Prof Madara Ogot, the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance, seeks to equip the participants with the tools and skills to strengthen existing open research repositories (OIRs) or …

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DataCite Joins OPAR Open Science Webinar Series to Advance African Research Visibility

IOI Network Adoption Fund, OPAR, OPAR Open Science Webinar Series / By Harold Bowa / September 1, 2026 September 1, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance invites the research and education community to the next OPAR Open Science Webinar, titled “Enabling Open Science in Africa with DataCite: Insights and Use Cases.” The webinar will take place online on Friday, 4 September 2026, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CAT. Africa continues to expand its research production and Open Science …

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Zimbabwe Librarians Pledge to Increase the Visibility of their Research Output

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By Madara Ogot / August 30, 2026 August 30, 2026

Zimbabwian librarians attending the Research Repository Stewardship Programme (RRSP) workshop from August 26-28, 2026, in Harare, Zimbabwe pledged to either develop or strengthen their open institutional repositories to increase the visibility and discoverability of their nation’s research output. The workshop, attended by 28 librarians from across Zimbabwe, was facilitated by Prof Madara Ogot, the CEO …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Builds Member NRENs’ Regional Capacity for eduroam and Identity Federation

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, OPAR, Open Science Workshops, Stories / By Martha Chikuni / August 28, 2026 August 31, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance successfully conducted a five-day eduroam and Identity Federation Training in Kampala, Uganda, from 17 to 21 August 2026. The workshop brought together 25 network and systems engineers from 13 member National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Eastern and Southern Africa, strengthening the technical and institutional capacity needed to support secure, federated digital …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Equips NRENs to Deliver DSpace-as-a-Service

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Open Science Workshops / By Harold Bowa / August 25, 2026 August 25, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance, hosted by the Rwanda Education and Research Network (RwEdNet), held a regional DSpace-as-a-Service (DSaaS) Engineering Bootcamp in Kigali, Rwanda, from 3-7 August 2026. The five-day systems engineering training formed part of the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact,” funded by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) through its …

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Uganda Librarians Strengthen Repository Stewardship Skills to Boost Research Visibility

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Open Science Workshops / By Harold Bowa / August 25, 2026 August 25, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance, in collaboration with the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU), held a three-day Research Repository Stewardship Programme in Kampala, Uganda, from 12-14 August 2026. The training formed part of the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact,” funded by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) through its Network …

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Strengthening Africa’s Research Ecosystem Through Open Infrastructure

IOI Network Adoption Fund, OPAR Open Science Webinar Series, Stories / By Harold Bowa / August 24, 2026 August 25, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance invites researchers, librarians, repository managers, National Research and Education Network teams, research networks, open-source advocates and other open science stakeholders to the next session of the OPAR Open Science Webinar Series: “Strengthening Africa’s Research Ecosystem Through Open Infrastructure.” This special webinar will feature Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), the funder of the project …

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BERNET Hosts the Second French-Language Open Institutional Repository Stewardship Workshop

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By Harold Bowa / August 24, 2026 August 24, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance has conducted the eighth Librarian Capacity-Building Workshop on Modern Repository Management and Metadata Curation under the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact”, supported by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). The workshop took place in Burundi from 17–19 August 2026 and forms part of the wider series of …

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From Fragmented Repositories to Connected Research: Join the Next OPAR Open Science Webinar

IOI Network Adoption Fund, OPAR, OPAR Open Science Webinar Series / By Harold Bowa / August 12, 2026 August 12, 2026

Africa produces a wealth of valuable research, yet much of this knowledge remains dispersed across disconnected institutional repositories and systems with limited interoperability and global discoverability. How can African institutions build a more connected, trusted and visible research ecosystem? Join the next OPAR Open Science Webinar, “Building Africa’s Trusted Research Infrastructure: From Fragmented Repositories to …

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